
I returned to Hyderabad after four years away — quite a long stint for me. I reported on how much the city’s changed for Travel + Leisure.
I returned to Hyderabad after four years away — quite a long stint for me. I reported on how much the city’s changed for Travel + Leisure.
I wrote about my first foray into a life of crime — a misguided sticker theft in the third grade — for the Christian Science Monitor.
Check out my essay in the current installment of Fresh Yarn. Happy holidays, everyone! Santa Claus Is Coming to Town…NOT When I was a kid I, like millions of other…
Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and Eid! Here’s my latest essay from the Wall Street Journal. The Indian Thanksgiving A naturalization test at an immigration office in Boston…
I’ve always had a major obsession with Indian fashion, and I wrote about it for the Wall Street Journal’s New Global Indian column.
This piece is all in good fun. For a slightly more serious look at how Muslims around the world observe Ramadan, check out my piece at Travel + Leisure. Inside…
Update: This essay was recently published in the New York Press – check it out! I knew he was sketchy as soon I saw him clambering up the steps of…
UPDATE: this essay now appears in the travel anthology The Places We’ve Been: Field Reports from Travelers Under 35. My grandparents in India live on a tidy little estate called…
On a crisp spring night last month, seven girls, 15 bags, 12 cereal bars, and six digital cameras (including one rather hardcore Nikon SLR) embarked from JFK on a whirlwind…